...although most theoreticians would admit at least a passing acquaintance with the major tenants. Husserl's phenomneology focuses on the Lebenswelt of the perceiving subject that constitutes the subjective framework within which the individual apprehends and goes on to interpret the external world. His procedure mandates the abandonment of everyday means of viewing the world in favor of a heightened reflection that provides means of gaining access to the undergirding structures of consciousness of quotidian experience. Drawing on Husserl's foundational concepts and to a more limited extent Heidegger's revisionary reading of them, Maurice Merleau-Ponty configures the subject as a focal...

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